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Poster:	dead-head_Monte	Date:	October 21, 2010 11:15:41am
Forum:	etree	Subject:	Metadata Editor web page Form - removing logger Clutter?

Admin Question -- about updating Item's HTML, or adding lots of Files (JPGs, for example) and other metadata changes:

Can I get a new or special privilege to delete vast amounts of unnecessary UPDATE DATE logger entries (extra table rows)?

re: the Metadata Editor logger entries are getting superfluous

I'm wondering if Item Admins here, like myself, can be granted an "extra privilege" for keeping our Items spiffy and efficient. Web designers like myself are using a plethora of techniques for laying out, designing, previewing, proof-reading, correcting, updating, and editing data fields in The Archive's Metadata Editor. I am spending countless hours working to get the results I am seeking.

My HTML designs for My Items end up inside The Archive's HTML container or "wrapper." I don't have a problem with that, and my results stand on their own merits. Without detailing how I'm doing this, let me just say that using Dream Weaver to accomplish this upfront 100 % won't work for me. I'm deploying multiple HTML editors - all at once - to achieve my objectives. It's not the same as "normal" web designs that I would normally be doing in Dream Weaver.

Understandably, we would want to leave some logger entries in there. For example: Archive Admins coming in and making changes; the author making the first changes; the author making the last changes. Most of the remaining dozens of "logged changes" by the author can -- AND SHOULD -- get deleted and removed. The Metadata Editor web page Form, for my heavily-edited Items, are getting pretty cluttered. CLUTTER IS THE PROBLEM.

Any suggestions? I'm just trying to improve things, make things more simple, and help deliver more media-rich content to your digital library. Whenever "another" good web design idea pops into my head, I like to add them right away.

Thanks again,
Monte

examples of My LMA Items -- with Metadata Editor clutter from logger entries
http://www.archive.org/details/MonteBarrylr-vg1976-08-15-SBD
http://www.archive.org/details/arbsq1980-10-25.sbd_flac24

Several of my other items are getting ridiculous amounts of Logger Entry clutter.

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Poster:	greenone	Date:	October 21, 2010 12:06:53pm
Forum:	etree	Subject:	Re: Metadata Editor web page Form - removing logger Clutter?

I'll mention this to the higher-ups, but I should mention that not even the admins (like me, Tyler and a few others) have permissions to delete the "updater/updatedate" entries on the metadata editor. So this would have to be a systematic change rather than just a simple permissions grant, I think.